Berdawn

(1) The accused declared, ordered, or otherwise indicated that there shall be no survivors or surrender accepted; (2) The accused thereby intended to threaten an adversary or to conduct hostilities such that there would be no survivors or surrender accepted; (3) It was foreseeable that circumstances would be such that a practicable and reasonable ability to accept surrender would exist; (4) The accused was in a position of effective command or control over the subordinate forces to which the declaration or order was directed; and (5) The conduct took place in the context of and was associated with hostilities.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.

Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:

Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.

And recognized as such by the US Government.

From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Did this scene also have "fuckity fuck fuck" ???

"I don't know what weapons the next war will be fought with, but the one after that will be with sticks."
"Because of nukes, right?"
"No, because we decided logistics was woke."

And here I felt like I was right in the middle of the US bell curve because we watch Abbott and Drag Race

Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord...

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes."

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www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

Idiocracy prequel where we find out a big part of the story was everyone thinking AI could think for them and then one day the system craps out

guy kickflipping an oil tanker from one side of the sea to the other, over the land (radical)

can this be a solution?

When all you have is a hammer, almost every problem looks like a nail. The one problem that doesn’t is “everything has been smashed by a hammer” because you don’t see that as a problem.

This. We just took out this guy's family, including his wife and father, along with some other relatives. Expecting him to be entirely rational right now is insane.

Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."

Nekima on the Target boycott.

Ich bin ein Spanier

The US is at war and repression at home is going to get worse.

I'm old enough to remember during the Iraq war the FBI infiltrating quaker meetings and vegan potlucks and cracking down on anti-war groups and outspoken Muslim leaders.

The US surveillance state has grown exponentially since then.

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Oh my gawd...OK. TY. That works. I couldn't understand why they wouldn't type out "sexy" or was it something to do with Sylvester Stallone (sexy sly shoes?) Because the president is unhinged and nothing makes sense

What is the word that is bleeped? (I can't get the proper word into my brain today)

I can't compete with this.

fucken techbros watched that one episode of tng where they tried to disassemble data for study and think if we define an llm as conscious we can't shut it off. man we kill conscious beings every day on this stupid planet. unlike say, 70k gazans, terminating claude would actually benefit humanity.

Applicable in many many contexts

I like USian

Front cover of "None but the Rightous" by Chantal James

Enjoying this one today

Would be nice if the Dems learned anything from it

I love #BookSky

Exploitation probably. Failure of imagination for sure

I know he is a billionaire

Six people legally living in the US and legally traveling for work were disappeared by the US government and the only reason we knew about it was because one woman was family friends with a county commissioner and her cell phone pinged to two detention centers.

Rest in peace Rubin Ray Martinez. 🙏🏽

Chinga la migra. Abolish the whole dam system.

He fucked shit up in East Timor IIRC but is the only president in my lifetime to have not bombed civilians

That's what they said about Medicare BITD

If you have a little time, can expand on that? I could use a little hope.

Sound all the way UP

How do you stand to live in such a Red state?